Can a Bankrupt Chinese Company Stop the iPad?

Proview, the bankrupt Taiwan-Mainland China display house that apparently – through slight of hand – rooked Apple out of the rights to the iPad trademark in China – is supposedly making settlement noises after a Shanghai court refused to stop iPad sales in the city pending a decision by still another, higher court in another province that won’t hear Apple’s case until next week. Meanwhile Proview reportedly means to appeal. Apple, which has three stores in Shanghai, is itself appealing a decision made by a court in a place called Shenzhen that said Apple doesn’t own the name. Proview has taken advantage of that initial Shenzhen decision to get iPads in the channel confiscated in some Chinese cities.

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